This is the comic book issue #8, of the event “Doomsday Clock” that it will be a maxiseries of 12 issues.

Creative Team:

Writer: GeoffEnter: Superman!

This is the comic book issue #8, of the event “Doomsday Clock” that it will be a maxiseries of 12 issues.

Creative Team:

Writer: Geoff Johns

Illustrator: Gary Frank

A WHOLE WORLD TO SAVE

(Not so) Good Ol’ Ozzie breaks up in, no less than, the very White House, and he found out something that can help to his secret plans, therefore he sent it to Lois Lane, and maybe we are more surprised than her, due to her reaction about the filtered info.

Superman has been an international beacon of hope and peace, since he doesn’t take sides, therefore, he is the only superhero who isn’t seen as a representative of any government, not even the United States…

…BUT…

…a crisis on Russia involving Firestorm, will mess with the general perception about the Man of Steel…

This comic book miniseries accounts how Captain Phasma erased her forced involment in the destruction of the Starkiller Starbase, when she had to get down the shields of the said station having guns pointed to her.

Phasma, once she escaped from the trash compactor area, she knew that she had to ensure to delete her entry in the computer system using her personal codes to deactivate the energy shields, and soon before anyone could check it out...

...she eliminate the electronic evidence, BUT...

...an First Order officer already had consulted the info...

...the course of action for Phasma is clear, as always in her life as a survivor...

...the First Officer should be "deleted" too!

Captain Phasma in the middle of the imminent destruction of the Starkiller base, she takes a TIE fighter along with a female First Order pilot, to chase the runaway First Order officer, flying in a TIE fighter too, to avoid that one of her most shameful and incriminating moments, could be widely known...

I got an odd feeling while reading this novel, since most of it, it's told by a third one, instead of the actual Phasma, in fact, Phasma appeared (in real time) until the final climax of the book.

So, it's a book of Phasma and at the same time, kinda not.

But, don't get me wrong, since the story is quite strong, since it's a book about a villain, and certainly Phasma is merciless when it's about her own survival.

A Resistance spy is captured by the First Order, but soon she's taken to a secret room where a competitor Stormtrooper captain (with red armor, but it's not that one who has been appearing in Star Wars: Resistance) known as "Cardinal" and that he's obsessed about finding out the dirty stuff of Phasma's past to use it to get her falling from grace in the eyes of the First Order High Command.

Since the spy wanted to survive too and it's not like that she's being asked about Resistance's inner info, she decided to tell everything she knows about Phasma's past, after a previous travel to Phasma's native world, where she got Phasma's story through a living witness.

Phasma is a merciless person, and she doesn't care about anybody but herself, and any chance of improving her existence, and in this book you'll learn about her long journey to be able to leave that forgotten planet, for any means necessary.

And even after being successful of leaving her world (it's not a spoiler since it's obvious that she became a First Order Stormtrooper officer, duh!), Phasma isn't loyal to anybody but herself and her own precious survival.

This is quite an unusual book of Star Trek not only since you get it from the perspective ofA book inside of a book!

WAR IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS!

This is quite an unusual book of Star Trek not only since you get it from the perspective of the Klingons (several years before that such angle would become more often), but also because this is "novel" inside of this very novel.

The USS Enterprise crew during a shore leave met a novel recounting how the Klingons saved the Federation from insidious action by high officials of Starfleet, and the reading of such became soon enough a trendy topic on the vessel.

Even a relative of Dr. McCoy and a young Spock can be found in the pages of the said novel.

Due that the real book was written several years ago, some stuff about Klingon culture and its historic development have changed in the various TV series, but since the tale is a "piece of fiction with creative license", you can argue that those "incongruities" can be intentional for purposes of storytelling.

A daring "chess" game with "living pieces" is played in the space scenario, lasting decades with the clear target to find a most-needed balance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire to avoid an open out war.

This novel is quite relevant since it was the first stone to build the modern image of the Klingon culture and its sense of honor.

This is #1 comic book issue of "The Green Lantern" starting a new storyline, but it's NOT a reboot, since all the previousTHE Green Lantern is back!

This is #1 comic book issue of "The Green Lantern" starting a new storyline, but it's NOT a reboot, since all the previous background remains canonic, so this is NOT an origin story, but still a good starting point for any new interested reader.

Creative Team:

Writer: Grant Morrison

Illustrator: Liam Sharp

HAL JORDAN MAKES YOUR DAY

Grant Morrison gives us a brand new chapter in the life of Hal Jordan, having his background strong backing him up, and with the awesome artwork of Liam Sharp giving to the comic book a delicious and quite suitable pulp feeling.

The very title of this new comic book about Hal Jordan is quite strong since he is part of the Green Lantern Corps, a space law enforcement organization with thousands of agents, but in the middle of those thousands...

...he is THE Green Lantern!

And you must not having any doubt of the distinction!

Hal Jordan have a reputation and not all is nice what is heard about him, so many alien criminals already know that it's better to surrender than having a problem with the infamous space cop.

And you can perceive that Hal Jordan has a valuable field experience, managing at hand many details about alien beings already in his mind without having to rely on the ring for the data.

Hal Jordan isn't just a common guy with a power ring, since he is quite resourceful even without the ring. His personal life maybe has been a mess, but...

...as a representant of the Green Lantern Corps...

...he has no equal!

And the Guardians of the Universe, reluctantly is aware of that, and when the very Book of Oa isn't trustworthy anymore on its pages since a powerful external force (that you'll be amazed when you watch the representing symbol) has done mess with it and adding a new future peril as a prophesy, where old antagonists will introduce a whole new level of threat...

...the Guardians know that it's about time to recall back Hal Jordan to active service...

This is a prose novel, tie-in for the popular "The Blacklist" TV Series. At the beginning of the book,The Blacklist got larger!

HIVE IN PLAIN SIGHT

This is a prose novel, tie-in for the popular "The Blacklist" TV Series. At the beginning of the book, it was quite awesome, since you could feel the characters rigth as they should be, and it was understandable why the story was chosen for this format, since the main scenario could be financially challenging to be produced for television...

...however once the story took its major plot, I think that certainly element was too easily affecting some of the character to be believable, even in the incredible world of Red Reddington.

The Beekeeper is a dangerous villain who built a "hive" of mind controlled human drones, snatched from around the country, with an ambitious plan to take over it.

While it's obvious that media tie-in books aren't too canonical, to be taken in account when something is developed further in the TV series, it was kinda odd, to read about a time in the life of Red Reddington that due the shocking cliffhanger in the last season (5th season) that I won't tell, don't worry, but certainly proved to be risky to approach the young adult days of Reddington....more

I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I've chosen this TPB edition to make a better overall revieThe bridge between TV series and film!

I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I've chosen this TPB edition to make a better overall review.

This TPB edition collects "Serenity: Those Left Behind" #1-3.

Creative Team:

Writers: Joss Whedon & Brett Matthews

Illustrator: Will Conrad

GONE TOO SOON

...A ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.

Firefly is one of those TV jewels that they were gone too soon. With just one season, it was unfair that the TV series didn't have a chance to fully stretch its legs...

...so when the eventual movie was out, the fans got thrilled...

...however some of the characters weren't where the fans remembered.

This miniseries show you how and why, those characters came to be in the places that you found them in the movie...

...in the middle of a failed bank heist...

...and an old enemy looking for bloody revenge!!!

You get the characters faithfully portraited, and definitely showing why Malcolm Reynolds is one of the most impressive sci-fi characters, since he's not a bad guy, BUT...

...a saint or a fool ain't he, neither.

This is a fine Firefly tale, leading to the Serenity film, and while it has the limitations of having only three comic book issues to develop it, I think that it was quite adequate told to learn what you wanted to know about the changes met at the beginning of the closure movie.

This is the original story where the film "Kingsman" was based on, to the point that while this comic book title was just "The Secret Service", it was added "Kingsman" to the title to match both projects with the same title.

However...

If you already watch the movie, don't think that you don't need to read the comic book anymore, since while both projects have several similar elements, there are still enough differences to enjoy the original angle taken in the graphic novel.

London, Jack London.

Master spy of the MI6, and meanwhile he's on the case of world celebrities' kidnappings, he decides that it's about time to take a direct approach to avoid that his nephew, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, would waste his life, and takes him to the "spy school".

While Eggsy's street smarts give him several advantages in the three-years spy training, he's still ignorant in several social skills and common knowledge in real life, but good ol' Jack won't be too away for leading his nephew in the right path.

Jack & Eggsy will have to work together to stop the insidious plans of an insane villain that is menacing (literally) of ending the world population...

What surprised me more about this origin stories for the “Dark Knights of the Dark Multiverse” was that since they were coming from a parallel dimension zone called “Dark Multiverse”, well, I thought that it would be something like in the classic cartoon episode of Superfriends titled “Universe of Evil” were the heroes were twisted evil counterparts, but surprisingly, those so-called “Dark Multiverse Earths” were quite similar to the usual parallel Earths of the regular multiverse, at least in the seven presented Earths where the Dark Batmen risen…

…where the heroes are good, and even the Batman of each of those Earths were good persons too, and even their “improvements” were conceived out to do good on their own each Earths and save them from stuff that they really considered were wrong…

…but as you well know…

…the road to Hell is paved out of good intentions…

…Batman is merged with The Flash, taking control of the Speed Force twisting it, The Red Death is born!

…Batman develops an A.I. assistant based on his murdered Alfred and tricking the help of Cyborg, becomes The Murder Machine!

…Young Bruce Wayne, right in the moment of his parents’ murder, he got a Green Lantern power ring and using his overwhelming willpower, corrupts the program of the power ring, suffocating the light of the power ring, with his vengeful inner darkness, and The Dawnbreaker risen!

…a female counterpart, Bryce Wayne, in her war against Atlantean forces, she twisted her DNA, becoming an Atlantean-like warrior, The Drowned surges!

…Batman battles side-by-side with Wonder Woman against Ares, God of War, but after the Amazon Princess fell, he didn’t hesitate to become the new god of war, The Merciless!

…Batman is resentful against Superman, since the Kryptonian offered a false sense of hope to his Earth, and after the Last Son of Krypton started to destroy everything, Batman need to actívate his twisted protocol, merging with Doomsday’s DNA, turning into The Devastator!

…Batman reacts against the ultimate evil act of the Joker, but the Clown Prince of Crime has the last card on his sleeve, and The Batman Who Laughs is born! And becoming the primary messenger of a bigger threat to recruit the Dark Knights of the Dark Multiverse…

…since their Earths are doomed to perish, so it’s time leave them and…

…to engage a full invasion against Earth-0 in the regular Multiverse!!!...more

This is the second novel re-introducing in the new Expanded Universe Canon of Star Wars (post Disney bought) to tBoth Emperor’s enforcers… together!

This is the second novel re-introducing in the new Expanded Universe Canon of Star Wars (post Disney bought) to the character of Grand Admiral Thrawn, focused on his days previous to the events of the original movie trilogy.

This novel is set in two time periods: “Now” is after the episode “Zero Hour” (Star Wars: Rebels’ Third Season Finale); and “Then” is after the episode “The Wrong Jedi” (Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Fifth Season Finale).

THE GRAND ADMIRAL & THE DARK LORD

“Now” is about a mission set by the very Emperor Palpatine to his closest servants: Lord Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith, and Grand Admiral Thrawn, commanding officer of the Imperial Seventh Fleet.

Emperor’s most powerful agent and his best combat tactician.

There is an unusual disturbance in the Force, located in the planet Batuu, at the far areas of the Outer Rim, quite near of the border to the Unknown Regions…

…and Palpatine wanted to be investigate it at once…

…of course this will serve him well to test, once again, the loyalty of his two best Imperial enforcers.

Thrawn employs his personal flagship, the Imperial Destroyer Chimaera (led by Commodore Karyn Faro), in charge of the overall mission, while transporting aboard to Lord Darth Vader, accompanied by the First Legion (special forces unit, lead by Commander Kimmund (part of the 501st Legion (Vader’s personal stormtrooper company))), in direct charge of the investigation of the disturbance in the Force.

Needless to say that Vader will soon enough clash against Thrawn, due their QUITE different commanding styles and choices to approach situations…

…but they will need to find common grounds to work along, if they want to success in their joint mission…

…after all…

…it’s NOT the first time that they work together!!!

THE CHISS COMMANDER & THE JEDI GENERAL

“Then” is about a personal mission of Jedi General Anakin Skywalker, looking for Republic Senator Padmé Amidale (his secret wife), whom got missing after attending to the calling of Duja (one of her once personal handmaidens of her days as Queen of Naboo) in the planet Batuu (does sound familiar, from the first section of this review? Aaah, the Force and its odd sense of balance!)

Once there, still in orbit, Anakin meets with Chiss Ascendancy’s Commander Thrawn (I won’t even try his original Chiss name), whom was assigned to understand the conflict of the Clone Wars, and whom at once offers assistance to Anakin on the quest for Padmé.

I can tell you that it’s awesome how Timothy Zahn (the author) narrates how Skywalker/Vader uses the Force, making you to grasp quite better how powerful (and useful) ally, the Force is.

Also, it’s interesting how Darth Vader refers to his experiences as Anakin Skywalker, refering as “The Jedi”, that I understand must be his way to protect in some kind of twisted way his past persona from the awful and murdering acts perfomed by the Dark Lord of the Sith.

This is the first book in a trilogy titled “String Theory”, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of “Star Trek: VoThe String Theory trilogy begins here!

This is the first book in a trilogy titled “String Theory”, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of “Star Trek: Voyager” (in 2005), each book written by a different author. The whole story is set after events of the TV Fourth Season Finale (“Hope and Fear”) but before the events of the TV Fifth Season Premiere (“Night”) of the original run of the “Star Trek” Spin-off TV series.

WELCOME TO MONORHAN SPACE

After the huge disappoinment involving the supposedly USS Dauntless and the insidious revenge of Arturis, the general morale onboard the USS Voyager is quite down and Captain Kathryn Janeway is more than reluctant to divert their course to Earth for any curious sensor signal or space phenomenon…

…it’s time to focus in their challenge to reach home as soon as possible…

…but Janeway is more than anything…

…a Starfleet Officer…

…and her duty is to offer help to others and her innate scientific curiousity take the best of her…

…when a humongous space ark with an odd propulsion system almost collide in front of Voyager after taking a small detour to analyze something that shouldn’t be scientifically possible…

…a planet sustaining life orbiting a white dwarf…

…Captain Janeway soon offers help to the peculiar crew of the strange vessel, but…

…the road to hell is paved of good intentions, and Janeway ignores that her offering of assistance will lead to a catastrophe…

…also, the communication between Starfleet personnel and the new species won’t be easy, since those uses a “secondary speech system” that universal translator is unnable to process…

…moreover, the space system works with physics’ rules totally different than anything that Starfleet has ever encountered before, making impossible the warp travel there, along with the threat that a single moment without energy shields can provoke havok onboard Voyager.

Never the Voyager’s crew has ever been more pressed up, literally without chance of sleeping, each senior staff member will have to work without rest, having to think totally out of the box, and even having to implement extreme measures, for not saying that some of them, with totally opposite personalities, they will have to learn how to work as a team in levels that they never thought possible…

The general rating is an average sum of each rating per featured story.

Creative Team:

Writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Daniel Berman

Illustrators: Skott Rollins & Andrea Di Vito

BLOOD OATH

Rating: **** ( 4 stars )

This is a story set in the ol’ days of Thor, when he was still using a human disguise as Dr. Donald Blake and being friend of Jane Foster, both medical doctors working together…

…in a trip visiting Asgard, Thor finds out that the Warriors Three (Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg) are under trial for accidentally murdering Holth, a shape-shifting giant, that while in the form of a whale was harpooned by the three Asgardians.

Thor accepts not using Mjolnir, his enchanted hammer, while doing a journey along the Warriors Three, through several divine realms (Nordic, Greek, Egyptian and Japanese) to get several ítems as a compensation to the father of the fallen giant.

This is an adventures full of fun and thrilling fights, along with surprising cameos, and where you learn several key facts about the birth of the Asgardian mythology that they were useful to have in mind during the Ragnarok event.

RAGNAROK

Rating: ***** ( 5 stars )

Odin is dead.

Frigga is dead too.

Loki is attacking the whole realm of Asgard to take control by force, using weapons forged in the same way as Mjolnir.

Thor is forced to become king of Asgard under these dire circumstances, but losing for unknown reasons of the Odinforce.

However, this isn’t your regular Loki-Thor clash over the future of Asgard.

This is Ragnarok.

You can bet that Thor’s friends from other realms like Captain America, Iron Man and Beta Ray Bill are willing to risk their own lives to help the new king of Asgard to battle Loki’s hordes, but…

…Ragnarok is something only for Asgardians.

And Thor will have to make the most epic pilgrimage to get again the Odinforce to be the really and indisputable god of gods of Asgard…

…but Thor doesn’t have idea of how much that can cost to him…

…and also what involves to really stop such event as Ragnarok.

STORMBREAKER

Rating: *** ( 3 stars )

Beta Ray Bill was casted out of the Ragnarok for his own safety, and it couldn’t be better (or worse) timing since the new world of the Korbinites (an alien species that created Beta Ray Bill to be their champion and saviour), is under the threat fo something that it was supposed to Ashta, a Korbinite myth about a world killer…

…and while it’s not Ashta…

…it’s certainly a world killer…

…Galactus with his current herald, Stardust.

And while Beta Ray Bill, is reunited with his trusty Skuttlebutt, never was so overwhelmed with menaces since the Priests of the Korbinites have unleashed something previous to Beta Ray Bill, also Stardust will liberate another ancient menace…

Once again, fellow readers in the Force, if you have been reading my reviews about Star Wars film novelizations, youThe slowest space pursuit ever!

Once again, fellow readers in the Force, if you have been reading my reviews about Star Wars film novelizations, you already know that I’ll do several spoilers in this review (which is quite the opposite to my regular kind of review, but with Star Wars movie novelizations is quite hard not to fall into spoilers in the reviews about it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

SITH’S ADVOCATE

OK, most people didn’t like Episode VIII in its movie presentation, and I guess that could go as well into its expanded novelization, BUT...

...while certainly I can understand why was so poor received, I want to play “Sith’s Advocate” and expose some points that the script wanted to explore and/or expose and maybe, just maybe it wasn’t so clear to some people, so…

…sometimes the scoundrel guy doesn’t have a heart of gold.

…sometimes the desperate mission just failed, not matter how much the heroes tried.

…sometimes a great hero didn’t age the same as great.

…sometimes while the student is ready, the teacher isn’t.

…sometimes you never will be able to know the real truth about an incident where you weren’t present, even if you hear the points of view of each side involved in the incident.

…sometimes your allies won’t answer your calling for help.

…sometimes the fallen one isn’t just interested in redemption.

There isn’t anything wrong in all that. It’s just life. Not fair or unfair. Just life.

And I admire the boldness to show things like that…

…however, usually people aren’t looking for life-like situation in a worl of fiction.

Usually, we want in fiction that order that the chaotic life lacks.

And maybe…

…just maybe…

…all that life-like stuff could be better received…

…if the story wouldn’t present THE DANG SLOWEST SPACE PURSUIT in the history of science fiction!!!

Geez!!!

At the end, that tedious and maddening “pursuit” drags down everything else that the story tried to do.

SO WHAT’S DIFFERENT HERE ANYWAY?

Almost any novelization differs from the movie, usually since movie production does changes after the writer gets the original script, but in this particular time, this novel is presented as an “expanded edition”, so more than ever, definitely you will find several new stuff in the novelization of this episode in the Star Wars saga (while some of those “expanded” scenes are available in the deleted scenes section of the blu-ray…

So…

Movie versus book, you can find here…

…before the scene where the First Order fleet attack the Resistance base, you get Luke Skywalker meditating and having some kind of “Force vision” about how could his life may evolve if he hadn’t join old Ben Kenobi to go and saving the princess.

…a very good thing is that there is a scene to give honors in a funeral to Han Solo as the hero that he was.

…there is an extra “lesson” to Rey about not intervening in a situation if you can’t get balance out of it.

…when Finn, along with Rose, BB-8 and DJ, infiltrated the First Order’s flagship, he encounters in a turbolift, an old comrade of his days while training to be stormtrooper, which is a really hilarious moment.

…since Rey and Poe met face to face in the novelization of the previous episode, the meeting shown in the movie isn’t on this novelization.

…Leia and Chewie sadly realized that of the original rebels, now they are just them now (while I feel kinda “racist” not recognizing that R2-D2 and C-3PO, while droids, are part of the original rebels too (but maybe it’s just me and my pro-doids civil rights sentiments!))....more

This is the first book, introducing the character of “Bruno”, who’s proper name is Benoît Courrèges, andGreat detective novel!

WELCOME TO ST. DENIS

This is the first book, introducing the character of “Bruno”, who’s proper name is Benoît Courrèges, and he is the Chief of Police, in a small town named St. Denis, set in the región of Périgord, France.

St. Denis has been a town so calm that he rarely carries his service gun, and he doesn’t have any deputies. Bruno is close friend of the town’s mayor, and St. Denis is of those towns where everybody knows everybody.

However, their relaxed ambiance is suddenly shaken when the grandfather of a very known family (from Argelian and Arabic ethnics) is found dead, and not just dead but mutilated and with a Nazi swastika carved in his chest, along with the dissapearance of a French military medal given to the grandfather and an old rugby team photo.

The Gendarmerie garrison is immediately called for assistance, along with the Police Nationale (in France, there are at least three key police branches, and each respond to different ministries, so you can bet that many times, it results in a mess of jurisdictions).

The peaceful rutiny of St. Denis is soon turned into a socio-political war zone, with the involment of radical political parties’ members.

Moreover, government officials from Paris are doing pressure that that nasty crime has to be solved fast, making worse the situation sending a public prosecutor more interested to find a culprit (any culprit) than respecting the civic rights of St. Denis’ inhabitants.

While the investigation falls into the Gendarmerie and the Police Nationale, the Mayor pulled rank to keep Bruno, right in the middle of things, as his personal liaison, and in this way, not only Bruno can do his own investigation, but also he can give his personal advice and knowledge about the townspeople to the Gendarmerie regional head and the beautiful special inspector assigned to the case, but above all, to keep St. Denis as it was before as possible.

Bruno soon will discover that he didn’t know everybody as well as he used to think, that past always catches up with present, and that sometimes justice and peacekeeping aren’t synonymous, if you want to keep together a town.

The book not only has a gripping narrative style but also the author gives to the reader a deep (real deep!) knowledge about how things are done in France in several fields, its current socio-political idiosyncrasies, but also about France’s history (especially during WWII, but also other military conflicts), even history facts quite obscure that the majority of people (even in France) don’t know about that very country.

I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of making a better overall review.

This TPBThe fate of Jedha!

I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of making a better overall review.

This TPB edition collects “Star Wars” #38-43.

This comic book run is set after the events of “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” but before the events of “Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back”.

Creative Team:

Writer: Jason Aaron

Illustrator: Salvador Larroca

JEDHA’S AFTERMATH

The situation is… hostile.

We’re the Empire, you little fool. We thrive on hostile. The universe says “no” and we twist its arm until it howls “yes”.

After the destruction of the Death Star, it’s obvious that the Empire got quite short of kyber crystals since the most of its reverves were onboard the huge mobile space station, so they need to get more, and the only place is…

…Jedha.

But, that particular planet was the first target practice of the dissapeared Death Star, and while it only was hit with the power of one generator…

…not only Jedha City become dust, but the planet itself got a deep impact creating a gigantic hole, unbalanced not only its atmospheric environment but even…

…The Force got unbalanced there!

Saw Gerrera is no more, but his partisans still are fighting in a ruined world, and now with a kinda of unwanted boost of Rebel Alliance forces lead by Leia, along with Luke and Han, the Empire detachment sent there to look for kyber crystals is having a headache to achieve its mission…

…Enter: General Kanchar!

A very tall and massive, uber-brawny, and with a versatile cybernetic arm, Imperial Officer assigned to fix the lack of kyber crystals shipments.

And along with the mining advisement of Queen Trios of Shu-Torun (previously seen in this comic book run), the new commander in what remains of Jedha, expects to solve the hostile situation soon.

While Rebels and Partisans battle against the Galactic Empire, their own methods couldn’t be more different, so an “alliance” between the two resistance groups is quite fragile and not easy to make it work against formidable enemies.

But, don’t forget that Jedha used to be a key Jedi place, not only for the kyber crystals but also for its Jedi temples, and young Luke Skywalker wants to look for any remaining Jedi building for any clue for his already struggled self-training to become a Jedi Knight.

This comic book miniseries is set before of the eventsDarth Maul’s first blood!

This Marvel Comics TPB edition collects “Star Wars: Darth Maul” #1-5.

This comic book miniseries is set before of the events of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”.

Creative Team:

Writer: Cullen Bunn

Illustrator: Luke Ross

MAUL’S SECRET MISSION

Darth Maul has been the secret apprentice of Darth Sidious, since he was a little kid…

…and now that he’s a young adult, he still in secret…

…due Darth Sidious’ plans take a lot of time to be developed…

…and Darth Maul is starting to get impatient for beginning to kill Jedis!

Darth Maul gets Intel from a captured protocol droid (after being tortured and blinded, of course) about the bidding for a kidnapped Jedi Padawan, and he realizes that it’s his best chance to test his Sith skills against a real opponent, without compromising his secret status imposed by Darth Sidious.

Therefore, Darth Maul on his own, hires a group of Bounty Hunters: Cad Bane, Aurra Sing, Vorhdeilo (a disgusting bloodsucking insectoid) and Tek-Tek (a cybernetic rat-like creature), to acomplished his planned operation and getting for his own private duel, the captured padawan.

This Marvel Comics TPB edition collects “Star Wars: Darth Maul – Son of Dathomir” #1-4, originally published by Dark Horse Comics. Plus a comprehensive art gallery showing all comic book covers (including variants), to date, featuring the character of Darth Maul, not only in this miniseries but also in “Star Wars Tales” and the graphic adaptations (comic book and manga alike) of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”.

This comic book miniseries is an untold storyarc of the CGI Animated TV series “Clone Wars”.

Creative Team:

Writer: Jeremy Barlow

Illustrator: Juan Frigeri

MAUL EXTRAVAGANZA

If you’re fan of the Star Wars character of Darth Maul, this is a TPB that you must have!Not only features a storyarc from the CGI Animated TV series Clone Wars, that due the bought of Disney of Lucasfilms, the said animated series was abrubtly concluded with still at least four storyarcs already written and/or development, therefore, this comic book miniseries is totally of the new Expanded Universe Canon…

…but also, you have a complete art gallery of the comic book covers (including variants) that were published orinally by Dark Horse Comics, in which Darth Maul appears.

MAUL, GODFATHER

People thought that have watched the first and last of Darth Maul on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace…

…but thankfully the quite awesome CGI Animated TV series Clone Wars presented the return of your favorite Zabrak, rising up from a fearful madness, replacing his lost legs (and waist) with cybernetic equivalents, being found by his brother Savage Opress, clashing once again with Obi-Wan Kenobi in lightsaber duel, taking control of Mandalore, and uniting his own criminal organization, “The Shadow Collective” with combined forces of Black Sun, Pyke Syndicate, the Hutt Cartel and Mandalorian warriors (and the secret counsel of Mother Talzin, the Nightsister Queen Witch of Dathomir)…

…leading to an epic confrontation with his past master, Darth Sidious…

…but hardly Maul’s story ended there, but due that Clone Wars couldn’t be entirely finished, Maul’s saga was still yet to be further developed…

…imprisoned, but still having the loyalty of the various factions of the Shadow Collective, Darth Maul will take his personal vendetta against Darth Sidious employing his criminal organization to challenge the Separatist Army commanded by Darth Tyranus and General Grievous…

…with the Jedi Order and the Republic Clone Army, right in the middle of the effervescent conflict.

This is the first volume in a DC Comics Elseworlds series, known as “Earth-One”, setting Green Lantern in a different “Earth”Manhunters everywhere!

This is the first volume in a DC Comics Elseworlds series, known as “Earth-One”, setting Green Lantern in a different “Earth” than the used for its main storyline. Instead of being a monthly comic book title, it’s published as a graphic novel per volumes with non-determined publishing schedule.

Creative Team:

Writers: Corinna Bechko & Gabriel Hardman

Illustrator: Gabriel Hardman

LOOKING FOR HIS PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE

What do you know about the Oans?

Very little. They created the Lanterns to bring order to the galaxy?

Those are very interesting words you used… To bring order. Does that sound benevolent to you?

Harold Jordan has been looking for his right place in the universe…

…and he doesn’t think that Earth is that place.

Good thing is that he’s an astronaut, so he has been able to be away from Earth for at least 8 years.

However, he hasn’t go that far anyway.

Since NASA is no more, so the willpower for exploring out of the Sol System is no more either. Now, Earth’s only interest on space is to look for relevant minerals for the construction of cell phones and stuff like it. So, now Ferris Galactic has the contracts for that and they hire different crews competing each other to find first a viable asteroid with the needed elements.

…Green Lantern Corps is no more. The emotionless mechanical Manhunters killed the majority of them, very few are hidden since their rings are a pale shadow of their original power levels, rumors said that it’s because the Main Power Battery was destroyed, and it may be very well the case, since the Manhunters took over Oa (along with dozens of other alien worlds), and there isn’t a single trace of the Guardians of the Universe.

So, in a moment, Harold Jordan thought that humans were alone in the universe…

…and in the next one, he’s barely surviving in the middle of a vast and diverse alien galactic community, suffering by the ruthless ruling of the Manhunters, and while he wasn’t “chosen” but “just find” the power ring…

…it seems that Jordan is the only remaining hope, with enough willpower, for making the Green Lantern Corps live again!...more

Once again, fellow readers in the Force, if you have been reading my reviews about Star Wars film novelizations, you alreadyA new hero(ine) awakens!

Once again, fellow readers in the Force, if you have been reading my reviews about Star Wars film novelizations, you already know that I’ll do several spoilers in this review (which is quite the opposite to my regular kind of review, but with Star Wars movie novelizations is quite hard not to fall into spoilers in the reviews about it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

ENTER: REY

After several years without any new film in the Star Wars episodic saga, AND an unexpected purchase of Disney Company of the entire Lucasfilms corporation…

…finally Star Wars was adding new episodes to the epic sci-fi saga!

And while several old (quite known and popular) heroes were returning: Leia, Han, Chewie, C-3PO and R2-D2, you’ll get a new heroine…

…Rey!!!

A mysterious young scavenger girl, having a rough living in Jakku (a desert world where nobody would want to live there), awakens in the Force, caught between a military conflict of the First Order and the Resistance…

…she is strong in the Force, and getting a lightsaber (and not any lightsaber BUT the one that Luke los ton Cloud City, that it was Anakin’s originally!!!

What else can you ask?

Oh, yes, I love Rey!

ENTER: BB-8

If anybody would tell me that another astromech droid would rise to become even more popular than R2-D2, I would think that they had become crazy…

…but that really happens!

Sweet and funny BB-8 stole the show in Episode VII becoming an instant pop culture icon, recognizable around the world!

ENTER: THE REST

Kylo Ren freezes a frakkin’ laser beam in the air!!! Oooooooooh!!! You may say many things about Kylo Ren but…

…he freezes a frakkin’ laser beam in the air!!!!!! Nuff’ said!

Finn is an interesting character showing that there are people under those stormtrooper helmets.Captain Phasma is a cool fearsome looking character (with Gwendoline Christie under the armor!!!), sadly the writers weren’t kind with her, allowing her to do something memorable in the story.

Poe Dameron was almost just a brief character, but thankfully, other producers recognizing his potential, suggesting to JJ Abrams to keep him in the story.

General Hux, wimpy field commander-in-chief of the First Order that he’s too young to be believable to be in such position of power.

SO WHAT’S DIFFERENT HERE ANYWAY?

Yes, yes, The Force Awakens is A New Hope retold, but who cares? Sometimes life is a circle and events are destined to be lived again…

So…

Movie versus book, you can find here…

…before of the first movie scene, there is a brief moment with Leia thinking about the events between The Return of the Jedi and this episode…

…Poe Dameron didn’t kill a stormtrooper and Finn’s reluctance to fire against innocent villagers is thought due a weapon malfunction…

…there is a clear explanation that the Resistance isn’t part of the New Republic, but Leia is asking for back-up by them, against the rising of the First Order…

…Poe Dameron has a scene letting know to readers that he indeed survive the TIE fighter’s crash (way before of his re-appearance in the movie leading the Resistance’s X-Wings) and his escape from Jakku…

…Unkar Plutt tried to collect Rey and BB-8’s First Order reward, and he suffered the rage of Chewbacca, falling dead after his arms are ripped out! Oh, yeah!

…the infamous snowspeeder scene that produces several kind of toys but that didn’t appear in the movie…

…Kylo Ren aboards Millenium Falcon (when it’s on Starkiller Base)!!! And he thought about his past and how he became who he is now…

…Rey and Poe meet (not like in movies that they meet in person, for the first time, at the end of Episode VIII).

This is a single comic book issue given in the Free Comic Book Day event of 2018, featuring the beginning of the storyline “The beginning of an era!

This is a single comic book issue given in the Free Comic Book Day event of 2018, featuring the beginning of the storyline “Transformers: Unicron”..

Creative Team:

Writer: John Barber

Illustrator: Alex Milne

UNICRON IS COMMING! UNICRON IS COMMING!

After a decade of IDW Publishing with the successful franchise of Transformers, creating its own storyline, beginning from stratch, showing a new timeline, keeping the highlights of what is Transformers is about.

I read myself, two of the many titles, Transformers: Hail Megatron and Transformers: Robots in Disguise, which I enjoyed a lot both of them.

And certainly, Transformers, not only had its own roster of characters, but also they did crossovers with other iconic 80’s animated franchises like G.I. Joe (that also already had similar crossovers with them in the past), but even with Visionaries, and now they are having a crossover with…

…ROM: Space Knight!!!

Since this Transformers timeline is different from previous ones…

…it’s only now that they will have to deal with the greatest menace that Transformers ever faced…

…Unicron!

In this special FCBD issue, you’ll realize that Unicron isn’t attacking worlds at random, but there is a design after it.

And during the following months, IDW Publishing will have the great saga that gets its 10-years’ run to an end.

Dan Slott is one of the bravest writers in the comic book business nowadays, famous (or infamous) for polemic storylines like Superior Spider-Man, and not matter if you like his stories or not, if you're into the comic books, hardly you aren't aware of what he's doing, since usually what he does cause an impact in the industry.

So, choosing Dr. Miles Warren aka The Jackal, infamous villain of the also infamous Spider-Clone Saga for his own Spider-Island wasn't that unusual, since Dan Slott knows how to justify his writer's salary.

This is a story so big, that you have not only your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, but also Agent Venom, Anti-Venom, Jessica Carpenter aka new Madam Web, plus the Avengers, the Future Foundation (Fantastic Four minus Human Torch), and even the Young Allies...

...Manhattan is infested with genetically manipulated bedbugs and more than a million civilians got spider-powers but without none of the responsibity to use them in a good way!

This is the worse nightmare for Mayor J. Jonah Jameson, and he doesn't know how far the dark dream will extend!

The Jackal has not only a whole scientific team of clones of himself (in his previous human form), but also a couple of powerful enforcers...

...however he isn't the one pulling the string in this insidious web, and a terrible threat is about to get control of all the infested spider-powered civilians, and hardly will stop with an island...

...the rest of the nation and even the world are at risk!

In a city where you find spider-men in every corner...

...the Amazing Spider-Man hardly is a difference in this dangerous game...

...but the scientific mind of Peter Parker...

...may be the key factor in the middle of this massive menace over the Manhattan!...more

This is a single comic book issue given in the Free Comic Book Day event of 2018, featuring a exclusive premiere of a coGhost in the Shell for free!

This is a single comic book issue given in the Free Comic Book Day event of 2018, featuring a exclusive premiere of a complete, all-new short story of “Ghost in the Shell”..

Creative Team:

Writer: Max Gladstone

Illustrator: David López

Colors: Nayoung Kim

AUTOMATIC BEHAVIOR

This is a great preview of the upcoming Hardcover Anthology of Ghost in the Shell expected to be published in September 2018, because if the rest of stories are the same as great as this one,...

...oooooh! You’re for a show alright!

Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section Chief Daisuke Aramaki, traveled to Shanghai, China, for an undercover mission, pretending to be diplomatic representatives of Japan, in the signing of a trade agreement, to investigate a possible rogue involvement of some Chinese officials in the attack to a mining operation in Africa.

The analysis of the attack indicates the use of combat tactics of an American Special Ops Team, that it shouldn’t exist anymore.

During the opening party for the Trade Summit, Aramaki is kidnapped by rogue mechas, and Major is alone in a foreign country, without weapons or personnel back-up, for not saying that she isn’t sanctioned for any of both nations, Japan and China, to intervene in the Aramaki’s rescue…

Once again, fellow readers in the Force, if you have been reading my reviews about Star Wars film novelizations, you already know tLord Vader… rise!

Once again, fellow readers in the Force, if you have been reading my reviews about Star Wars film novelizations, you already know that I’ll do several spoilers in this review (which is quite the opposite to my regular kind of reviews, but with Star Wars movie novelizations is quite hard not to fall into spoilers in the reviews while I am writing them. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

YOUNGLINGS

Revenge of the Sith is the darkest moment of Star Wars movies, since it’s when Anakin Skywalker finally meets his fate in the balance of the Force.

It’s kinda funny that good ol’ Georgie thought that using the word “younglings” would make a milder impact on people instead of saying plainly “kids” or “children”, when Anakin does the unspeakble act againts the youngest students in the Jedi Temple.

Also, I think that The Force is quite permissive, about who enters into it,...

...since in Episode VI, you can watch Anakin as a ghost along with his pals, so it seems that you can massacre entire Tusken Raiders’ town (men, women and children) and killing “younglings” at the Jedi Temple, for not saying all the Jedi that he must kill at the following Jedi purge, etc… and still you can become one with the Force…

…yes, he repented from his sins before Luke, but hey, he did A LOT of VERY BAD things, so The Force should have some kind of purgatory I think, since it seems that got away with you evil deeds in life is kinda too easy and you still becoming one with The Force.

SO WHAT’S DIFFERENT HERE ANYWAY?

Movie versus book, you can find here…

…that Palpatine reveals himself openly to the readers since the beginning of the book, instead that the movies, that if you hadn’t read the expanded universe old novels, it wasn’t clear that Darth Sidious and Chancellor Palpatine were one and the same. Moreover, during the novel, Palpatine goes into deeper details of his master plan to defeat the Jedi Order.

…Dooku was fooled thinking that he will be part of a ruling triumvirate along with Anakin and Palpatine, and oddly, Dooku isn’t that powerful in comparison to Anakin, since in canonical novels and animated TV episodes, it was evident that no alone Jedi could be able to beat Dooku in a duel.

…also quite ood, General Grievious didn’t have the cough, result after his battle against Mace Windu.

…but the prize to the oddest in the book is that all scenes in Kashyyyk (the Wookie homeworld) aren’t developed!!!

…while you can feel it something about it in the movie, on the book it’s quite clear that Anakin is jealous of Obi-Wan and fearing that his master would be having a secret affair with Padme.

…the Jedis that go with Mace Windu to arrest Palpatine, do a kinda better battle, instead than in the movie were they’re beaten too easily.

…on the book is quite disturbing to read how much Anakin enjoys to kill Separatist Leaders once he turned to the Dark Side.

…you have clear access to the thoughts of Darth Vader once inside the protective armor, in his bitter process of truly becoming someone totally different than Anakin.

This is a single comic book issue given in the Free Comic Book Day event of 2018, featuring 2 different stories, one ofAvengers assembling for free!

This is a single comic book issue given in the Free Comic Book Day event of 2018, featuring 2 different stories, one of “Avengers” focused in Black Panther; and another with Captain America.

The overall rating is an average sum based on the individual ratings given to each story included in the comic book.

A MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING

Rating: ***** ( 5 stars )

Writer: Jason Aaron

Illustrator: Sara Pichelli

With the upcoming reboot of Marvel Comics, obviously comes a new roster for the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, to face a threat which has a million years in the making!

But before that, Black Panther travels to Asgard in ruins, and talks with Odin, about an ancient team of champions who battle for Earth, killing nothing less than a Celestial…

…but after an intervention of Loki, it seems that the Celestial wasn’t as dead as Odin thought so, and since it was buried in the soil of what is Africa now, obviously it’s an immediate menace for Wakanda, but Black Panther is no fool…

…and he’ll assemble a new Avengers team!

WE WHO LOVE AMERICA: A PROLOGUE

Rating: **** ( 4 stars )

Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Illustrator: Leinil Francis Yu

Back in WWII, it was easy to think what Captain America stands for…

…but what happens nowadays?

Even worse when Captain America is still suffering for the aftermath of being seen as a double-agent for HYDRA…

…a country divided between those still loyal to the ideals of HYDRA and those who want to have a real America fair with everybody.

This is a single comic book issue given in the Free Comic Book Day event of 2018, featuring 3 different storiesThe Doctor comes to FCBD once again!

This is a single comic book issue given in the Free Comic Book Day event of 2018, featuring 3 different stories with different Doctors.

The overall rating is an average sum based on the individual ratings given to each story included in the comic book.

CATCH A FALLING STAR

Rating: ***** ( 5 stars )

Writer: Nick Abadzis

Illustrators: Giorgia Sposito & Arianna Florean

WHO:

The Doctor: The Tenth Doctor

Companion: Gabby Gonzalez

WHERE & WHEN:

Deep Space. Non disclosured date.

WHAT:

Gabby is alone in space, about to die, after sacrificing herself, and she ponders about her life since she met the Doctor, but hardly she knows that this isn’t the end of her own story and a surprising cameo.

THE ARMAGEDDON GAMBIT

Rating: *** ( 3 stars )

Writer: John Freeman

Illustrator: Christopher Jones

WHO:

The Doctor: The Seventh Doctor

Companion: Ace

WHERE & WHEN:

Planet Trath. Non disclosured date.

WHAT:

At the planet Trath, the violent race of the Kla-Shi-Kel is rising in power, and they already obliterated several alien species…

…but they never were prepared for the Doctor!

It’s quite good, but at the end it’s sadly just like a quick prologue leading to a storyarc that it will be developed in the regular Classic Doctors comic books of Titan Comics.

MIDNIGHT FEAST

Rating: **** ( 4 stars )

Writer: George Mann

Illustrator: Mariano Laclaustra

WHO:

The Doctor: The Eleventh Doctor

Companion: Alice Obiefune

WHERE & WHEN:

TARDIS & Joe’s Diner. Non disclosured date.

WHAT:

Things are never boring in the TARDIS, not even at midnight when the Doctor is hungry and looking for some amusing snack.

AND INTRODUCING…

Rating: Not applied

Writer: Jody Houser

Illustrator: Rachael Stott

Maybe it’s not much a spoiler due the title of the last panel (that’s why I didn’t rate it since it’s not a story but only one page without dialogues but showing someone very much important for the future of the franchise.

I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of making a better overall review.

This TPBAs varied as good!

I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of making a better overall review.

This TPB edition collects “Star Wars” #33-37.

This comic book run is set after the events of “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” but before the events of “Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back”.

Creative Team:

Writers: Jason Aaron & Dash Aaron

Illustrators: Salvador Larroca & Andrea Sorrentino

STAR WARS SPOTLIGHTS

It’s not unusual en long comic book series that some time to time, between storyarcs, the creative teams take the chance to tell some stand-alone stories that they want to tell but they can’t be extended to 6 issues (the usual lenght of TPBs). Also, they can do a TPB made of stand-alone tales…

…and this one is precisely that.

And what better than using each issue of this TPB to spotlight a different character or characters?

First, you’ll have an adventure with Luke and Leia, stranded in an aquatic world, while escaping from Imperial patrols!

In the second tale, Sana Starros, a mysterious acquaintance of Han Solo, calls for assistance of another old mate, Lando Calrissian, to make one heck of scam, walking in a risky thin line between space pirates, Imperial officers and even Jabba the Hutt!

In the third story, your favorite scoundrel, Han Solo, along with Chewie, onboard in the Millenium Falcon, are sent in a perilous mission, taking a Rebel prisoner, Grakkus the Hutt, which keeps a secret, crucial for the survival of the Rebel Alliance!

Then, at the fourth tale, R2-D2 going solo to save the metallic butt of C-3PO, whom is prisoner on a Imperial Destroyer, which non other than Darth Vader is onboard!

Finally, it’s the turn of the bad guys to have a spotlight and it’s with the cunning SCAR Squadron proving why they’re the most dangerous Stormtrooper special forces squad in the Empire…

…and in the same issue, you have access to some pages of the Journals of old Ben Kenobi while dealing with Tusken Raiders.

Well, fellow readers in the Force, you know the drill by now, if you have been reading my reviews about StarI still like it, but it could be better!

Well, fellow readers in the Force, you know the drill by now, if you have been reading my reviews about Star Wars film novelizations, but if not, and you have fall in the carbonite complex, therefore, not having watched the film from this novelization was made, well, stop reading, since I’ll do some spoilers. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

LOVE AT FIRST FORCE

Well, good ol’ Georgie is a business genius, and certainly quite good in many film aspects, but developing a love story isn’t between his skills…

…I can understand that young Anakin had a huge crush on Padme, come on! She’s Natalie Portman! And she didn’t change a bit in 10 years (never told but I have to assume that people from Naboo aged quite slowly), so what started as a cute chlid crush, evolved into an almost out of control crush…

…BUT PADME???!!!

Last time, she saw Anakin, he was a small tender innocent kid, but she only needed a glimpse of him, already grown up and her Naboonian female hormones started to shake up!

I know that it’s not an easy task to present a believable romance in the big screen since true love needs time, and you have time against you in a movie, especially if it’s not a romance film per se, but a sci-fi action movie with some romance elements on it.

Therefore, I think they should play with the angle that the movie didn’t start right away from the previous one ended, in fact, 10 years later, sooooo, they could employ the moving yellow words at the beginning of the film, and explain that Anakin had been personal bodyguard of Padme for at least 6 months, and Jedi-Kapow! You can read (literally!) between lines that Anakin and Padme have been close for a fair amount of time and they fell in love during that time.

WORST ACCOUNTING EVER

I am an accountant, so maybe I am a geek with an unique vision about the thing with the Clone Army…

…that mysterious Sifo-Dyas paid to the people in Kamino to raise a vast Clone Army. You can bet that it wasn’t any cheap…

…and the Jedi Council never notice that they didn’t have a good amount of their money anymore in their arcs???!

Also, Yoda, Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi, didn’t have a single clue about how the heck the Kaminoans claimed to be paid by the Jedi to make the Clone Army, but they didn’t hesitate a second to take them and put them into a “slave-like” service for the Republic (good thing that “slavery” didn’t exist in the Republic anymore!).

And nobody followed the money involved!!!

Not all battles are won with lightsabers. They only to track the accounting books.

What the heck they were doing in the Jedi Council? Only looking “cool” in their seats?! They are the leader of the Jedi Order, so they should at least one time per year to check their finances.

Why taking such extremes like Order 66? Palpatine only needed an Audit Intervention and the whole Jedi Council could end in jail for money embezzlement! And if their funds weren’t used in that (Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis could take the money from other part), still the Jedi could be charged for property (the clones) misappropiation.

And in any case, if the Jedi have so much money…

…couldn’t they pay for the freedom of poor Shmee Skywalker, only to avoid some mental stress to Anakin, and he could stay in the safe side of the Force?!

WORST SHAPE-SHIFTER EVER

Mmh…

…why the heck, you create a Shape-Shifter Bounty Hunter, but she keeps her original outfit?! Even more ridiculous, wearing a veil in her helmet, why a veil to hide her face if she can change it?!

Yes, it’s more believable that she only change her physical body and not also her clothes, but this is where you have to avoid falling into too realism…

“Oooh! How odd, I was just chasing a female bounty hunter with your exact clothes, but nope, you have to be another person, since your face is different, yeah.” Geez!!!

JANGO & DOOKU

Jango Fett and Count Dooku must be the best things in the movie…

Jango Fett, since he has a cool Mandalorian armor, and ANYBODY is cool with a Mandalorian armor. And while he wasn’t that effective against Jedis, well, anybody without Force powers isn’t that effective against Jedis, but just watch how many Jedis has survive against true Siths, and you realize that poor Jango wasn’t that bad really.

About Count Dooku, sure, he’s a pale replacement of Darth Maul (even if he was Dracula before, no offense), but Dooku’s best moment is when he tells openly to Obi-Wan what is really going on, that a Dark Lord of the Sith is controlling the Republic, and dang Obi-Wan didn’t believe him!

This is the eighteen volume of “The Walking Dead", collecting the comic book issues from #103 to #108.

Creative Team:

Writer: RoNegan is here to stay!

This is the eighteen volume of “The Walking Dead", collecting the comic book issues from #103 to #108.

Creative Team:

Writer: Robert Kirkman

Illustrators: Charlie Adlard

Additional gray tones to inking: Cliff Rathburn

Chapter Eighteen

WHAT COMES AFTER

Let me put this to you as clearly as I can. I’m not in charge anymore. Negan is.

Rick doesn’t know too much about Negan and his Saviors’ army and without knowledge would be reckless to engage against them, so Rick will have to do one of the most difficult things to do…

…kneel before Negan.

Enter: Ezekiel…

…the eccentric leader of The Kingdom (oh, and he has a tiger… really, I’m not kiddin’!).

Rick’s world is getting larger and larger. First, Rick’s group settled in Alexandria, then they knew about The Hilltop, later came the Saviors and their secret headquarters “The Sanctuary”, and now there was The Kingdom.

The Kingdom is yet another community (with certain offbeat customs) under the extortion of Negan.

However, while Rick is aware of how larger his world has become, he is aware of something else.

Each time, there are more other communities in the area…

…and only one community loyal to Negan.

And something more important, if The Hilltop has a Jesus, it seems that The Sanctuary has a “Judas”....more